Oil a Motive for Aussies in Iraq

[tw]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

When she or the next president pulls our troops out it will be a genocide that will become the legacy of the person who pulled the plug.

So we stay there another "nine or ten years" (a quote from Gen Petreaus). We drive how many more million Iraqis into pauper refugees throughout the world. We cause how many more thousands of dead Iraqis – and TheMercenary says this is good.

TheMercenary spins a half truth while forgeting realities. He forgets that American presence only makes Iraq less safe and more violent. It creates a greater distrust among the various ethnic factions. When was the last time an American could sit in a sidewalk cafe in Fallujah. Yes, that was once standard before American occupation make Iraq “so much safer". But according to TheMercenary, "There is light in the end of the tunnel".

TheMercenary - your rhetoric are same lies from Nam. They do not work on those without a 'brown shirt' mentality.

Saddam killed maybe 200,000 of his own people in ten years. Americans created 100,000 dead Iraqis in less than two years. But Saddam is evil and an American presence does not create genocide. TheMercenary says it is so. Funny how those facts change when TheMercenary posts a political myth.

The longer Americans are 'saving them', then the more likely this civil war will kill even more Iraqis. Diyalah province once had no violence. Then American made is safer.

Iraq Study Group clearly offered a solution where few options were viable. Instead, TheMercenary's post even says the ISG is wrong. TheMercenary posts a political agenda rather than reality.

Iraq will not be a democracy. That option is gone as made so obvious by Iraq’s current government. Americans, doing as TheMercenary recommended, have seen to it that democracy - civil government representing all Iraqis - is not possible. Best we can now hope for is a theocracy dominated by the Shia with an autonomous province of Kurds.

But the longer we stay, the less likely even that becomes possible. Iraq Study Group defined an American withdrawal as the only solution. But somehow TheMercenary knows more – and cannot even say why.

We had a solution. What remains possible still reside in the Iraq Study Group; not in any political rhetoric that justify wacko extremist agendas.

tw offers solutions from the ISG. TheMercenary repeats political rhetoric from liars in the George Jr administration. One solution based in intelligent thought. Another only based in his political agenda.

Griff's post is accurate. Even Gen Petraeus said we will probably be in Iraq for another nine or ten years. Notice that Griff's post is confirmed with facts - not political rhetoric. Somehow TheMercenary calls 'nine more years' a victory - just like in Nam.

But then nine more years in Iraq means George Jr's legacy is safe. That is more important to whom?